024_POW Camp Carpenters

The Italian prisoners, they had to have them out working in the depot in different places. And so I would drive into the compound and pick up these Italian prisoners. They had an Italian lieutenant with them, and he could talk enough English that we could get by... He asked me questions and I agreed with him. One time I said, "Yes, that's okay." And he said "What is 'okay?' I had a hard time trying to explain what 'okay' meant.
-Bergetta Grant

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The Italian prisoners, they had to have them out working in the depot in different places. And so I would drive into the compound and pick up these Italian prisoners. They had an Italian lieutenant with them, and he could talk enough English that we could get by... He asked me questions and I agreed with him. One time I said, "Yes, that's okay." And he said "What is 'okay?' I had a hard time trying to explain what 'okay' meant.
-Bergetta Grant